Mary Paster
- Associate Professor and Chair
- Linguistics & Cognitive Science
- Pomona College
I am a linguist specializing in phonology and morphology. I teach intro linguistics, phonology, morphology, and field methods. In my research I do both theoretical and descriptive work.
You can contact me at mary.paster(at)pomona.edu
Research interests:
- Field linguistics / working with language consultants
- African languages
- Indigenous American languages
- Phonology – tone, vowel harmony, sound change
- Morphology – suppletive allomorphy, affix order, multiple exponence
- The phonology-morphology interface
Languages I have worked on with a consultant:
- Gã (Kwa; Ghana)
- Leggbo (Benue-Congo; Nigeria)
- Achumawi (Hokan; Northeastern California)
- Buchan Scots (Germanic; Northeastern Scotland)
- Pulaar (Atlantic; Senegal)
- Mixtepec Mixtec (Oto-Manguean; Mexico)
- Tiriki (Bantu; Kenya)
- Maay (Cushitic; Somalia)
- Luganda (Bantu; Uganda)
- Asante Twi (Kwa; Ghana)
- Malayalam (Dravidian; India)
- Manyika (Bantu; Zimbabwe)
- Tofingbe (Kwa; Benin)
- Kikuria (Bantu; Kenya)
- Logoori (Bantu; Kenya)
- Kipsigis (Nilotic; Kenya)
- Yoruba (Benue-Congo; Nigeria)
LINKS:
- 7 College Native American Indigenous Studies Network
- Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival
- African Linguistics School
- Association of Contemporary African Linguistics
- CoLang: the Institute for Collaborative Language Research
- Foundation for Endangered Languages
- Linguistic Variation
- Pomona College Linguistics and Cognitive Science Department
- Rumsen Language Reclamation Project
- Somali Bantu Community of San Diego
- Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Word Structure
- Yurok Language Project